Title: MLA Style: Two Parts
1MLA Style Two Parts
- Works Cited Page
- Parenthetical Citations
2Works Cited Page
- A complete list of every source that you make
reference to in your essay - Provides the information necessary for a reader
to locate and retrieve any sources cited in your
essay.
3A Sample Works Cited Page
Smith 12 Works Cited Dickens, Charles.
Bleak House. 1852-1853. New York
Penguin, 1985. ---. David Copperfield.
1849-1850. New York Houghton Mifflin Company,
1958. Miller, J. Hillis. Charles Dickens The
World and His Novels. Bloomington U of Indiana
P, 1958. Zwerdling, Alex. Esther Summerson
Rehabilitated. PMLA 88 (May 1973) 429-439.
4Works Cited Some Examples
- Book
- Byatt, A. S. Babel Tower. New York Random
House, 1996. - Article in a Magazine
- Klein, Joe. Dizzy Days. The New Yorker 5 Oct.
1998 40-45. - Web page
- Poland, Dave. The Hot Button. Roughcut. 26
Oct. 1998. Turner Network Television. 28 Oct.
1998 ltwww.roughcut.comgt.
5Works Cited List
- A newspaper article
- Tommasini, Anthony. Master Teachers Whose
Artistry Glows in Private. New York Times 27
Oct. 1998 B2. - A source with no known author
- Cigarette Sales Fall 30 as California Tax
Rises. New York Times 14 Sept. 1999 A17.
6Works Cited List
- A TV interview
- McGwire, Mark. Interview with Matt Lauer. The
Today Show. NBC. WTHR, Indianapolis. 22 Oct.
1998. - A personal interview
- Mellencamp, John. Personal interview. 27 Oct.
1998.
7When Should You Use Parenthetical Citations?
- When quoting any words that are not your own
- Quoting means to repeat another source word for
word, using quotation marks
8When Should You Use Parenthetical Citations?
- When summarizing facts and ideas from a source
- Summarizing means to take ideas from a large
passage of another source and condense them,
using your own words - When paraphrasing a source
- Paraphrasing means to use the ideas from another
source but change the phrasing into your own
words
9Handling Quotes in Your Text
- Authors last name and page number(s) of quote
must appear in the text - Romantic poetry is characterized by the
spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
(Wordsworth 263). - Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was
marked by a spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings (263).
10Handling Parenthetical Citations
- Sometimes more information is necessary
- More than one author with the same last name
- (W. Wordsworth 23) (D. Wordsworth 224)
- More than one work by the same author
- (Joyce, Portrait 121) (Joyce, Ulysses 556)
- Different volumes of a multivolume work
- (1 336)
- Citing indirect sources
- (Johnson qtd. in Boswell 2450)
11Handling Parenthetical Citations
- If the source has no known author, then use an
abbreviated version of the title - Full Title California Cigarette Tax Deters
Smokers - Citation (California A14)
- If the source is only one page in length or is a
web page with no apparent pagination - Source Dave Polands Hot Button web column
- Citation (Poland)
12Handling Long Quotations
- David becomes identified and defined by James
Steerforth, a young man with whom David is
acquainted from his days at Salem House. Before
meeting Steerforth, David accepts Steerforths
name as an authoritative power - There was an old door in this playground, on
which the boys had a custom of carving their
names. . . . In my dread of the end of the
vacation and their coming back, I could not read
a boys name, without inquiring in what tone and
with what emphasis he would read, Take care of
him. He bites. There was one boya certain J.
Steerforthwho cut his name very deep and very
often, who I conceived, would read it in a rather
strong voice, and afterwards pull my hair.
(Dickens 68) - For Steerforth, naming becomes an act of
possession, as well as exploitation. Steerforth
names David for his fresh look and innocence, but
also uses the name Daisy to exploit David's
romantic tendencies (Dyson 122).
13Handling Quotes in Your Text
- There are many different combinations and
variations within MLA citation format. - If you run into something unusual, look it up!